T-Mobile is a popular phone carrier due to their various friends and family plans with reasonable pricing. Another reason people like T-Mobile is the fact it’s easier to switch phones when using their service as they are on the GSM standard and employ SIM cards to carry user account information. If you’re a student there might be another good reason to use T-Mobile — a generous 15% student discount is available.

The way to get this 15% student discount on your bill is quite simple, just call T-Mobile customer support and ask for it, walk into a T-Mobile store and ask or use their online chat (http://support.t-mobile.com/businessmigration.html).  This discount is for university students, faculty, employees and alumni but it does not hold true for all schools, just those schools signed up with T-Mobile.  It appears that T-Mobile is verifying a relationship with a school simply via having a school email address, so the verification process isn’t partiularly rigorous.

Another way to get a 12% student discount if your school is not signed up with T-Mobile is to have a Student Advantage card.  It costs $20 to sign up for, but can be used for various other discounts such as with Amtrak and Jet Blue.

Some schools confirmed to have an 8 - 15% student discount (varies by school) are below, get in touch with T-Mobile to find out information for your school:

• Princeton University
• Fordham University
• New York City Publics Schools (teachers and employees)
• NYU (Teachers and Employees only)
• The Ohio State University
• UKY
• Rutgers
• University of California, Berkeley
• University of California, Irvine
• University of California, Los Angeles
• University of California, San Diego
• University of San Francisco
• Auburn University
• Johns Hopkins University
• University of Southern California
• Los Rios College District (CRC,SCC,FLC, ARC)
• Colorado State University
• San Fransisco State University
• Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ
• St.Cloud State University, MN
• University of Minnesota
• University of Illinois
• Arizona State University
• Brigham Young University - Provo
• Indiana University
• University of Florida
• University of South Florida
• University of Central Florida
• Florida International University
• University of Georgia
• George Mason University
• Old Dominion University
• UVA
• San Jose State University
• Sacramento State University
• Loyola University of Chicago
• Valencia Community College
• Kennesaw State University
• California State University, Los Angeles
• University of Rochester
• San Diego State University
• CUNY Baruch College, New York
• ALL University of Texas Branches
• Harvard University
• Temple University
• Stanford University
• Drexel University
• Villanova University
• UMDNJ
• New Jersey Institute of Technology
• Penn State University
• CSU Domiguez Hills
• William Paterson University of Wayne, New Jersey